Collectible card games (CCGs), also called trading card games (TCGs) or customizable card games (a phrase specific to two Decipher, Inc. games), are played using specially designed sets of cards. While trading cards have been around for much longer, CCGs combine the appeal of collecting and strategic game play.

Prior to 2000, most trading card games were named "collectible card games", and Decipher, Inc.--whether to draw distinction, or to denote more elaborate design--used its own term "customizable card game" (whose acronym still resolves to "CCG"). Starting with the Pokemon Trading Card Game in 1998, the phrase "Trading Card Game" was used much more frequently with anime and youth-oriented properties, and is generally chosen from a marketing standpoint to appeal to parents holding purchasing power, or to denote newer game design principles.

The first collectible card game was The Gathering, designed by Richard Garfield, published by Wizards of the Coast in 1993.

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@tropicalsteve You mean to tell me that Christian trading card games are not new?!
THEWesMolebash (Wes Molebash) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:35:23 -0000
@tropicalsteve You mean to tell me that Christian trading card games are not new?!
@SoulReaper12 A Trading Card Real Time Strategy Massive Multiplayer Online Game. It is made by EA Games. Google BattleForge.
Golthan (Christian J. Ralph) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:01:30 -0000
@SoulReaper12 A Trading Card Real Time Strategy Massive Multiplayer Online Game. It is made by EA Games. Google BattleForge.
RT @benadgatemusic @Phintly I used to play pokemon cards. Every Saturday at Borders they hosted card games/trading in the afternoon.
PikaTweets (Pokemon Tweets) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:42:45 -0000
RT @benadgatemusic @Phintly I used to play pokemon cards. Every Saturday at Borders they hosted card games/trading in the afternoon.
@Phintly I used to play pokemon cards. Every Saturday at Borders they hosted card games/trading in the afternoon.
benadgatemusic (Benny Adgate) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:39:08 -0000
@Phintly I used to play pokemon cards. Every Saturday at Borders they hosted card games/trading in the afternoon.
EmpireArcadia is strange http://bit.ly/7cPKN their only threat = 梅原-san lol What is this video ? Wait, they do trading card games, too? 0_o
goddesswing (Katrina Lobaton) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:55:50 -0000
EmpireArcadia is strange http://bit.ly/7cPKN their only threat = 梅原-san lol What is this video ? Wait, they do trading card games, too? 0_o
Board/Card Games: Hello Kitty TCG Due in March 2010: Upper Deck recently announced plans to release a trading card ga... http://bit.ly/Vr0B5
erikarneson (Erik Arneson) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:57:27 -0000
Board/Card Games: Hello Kitty TCG Due in March 2010: Upper Deck recently announced plans to release a trading card ga... http://bit.ly/Vr0B5

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